Comments on: Apple’s little problem with ripping off artists

By: Kettle Noir

Kettle Noir — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:30:33 +0000

Crediting Engadget in no way negated the fact that you’ve violated their copyright. You’re no better than the people you mock.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:47:46 +0000

Ha – Only one thing graphic designers like more than complaining (boo hoo, that boy stole my doodles) is sucking up to Apple.

Guess you guys are a bit conflicted here…

By: YTWWN

YTWWN — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:24:28 +0000

Dear Bingo-

IT IS NOTED IN THE FIRST LINE OF THE POST:

“This is a great artical found on engadget”

But i do have to agree with you about this paidandpopular.blog spam shit.
He better put a cork in it or i’ll sort him out

By: Bingo

Bingo — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:50:48 +0000

Whats amazing is that the poster of this entry just copied and pasted the original entry from Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-with-ripping-off-artists/

Surely just point to the Engadget link. I mean this site is all about not ripping ppl off and stuff.

Also wtf is with all these links to this website:
http://paidandpopular.blogspot.com/
I keep thinking you’re referencing it in some way in your comments. If you want to drive traffic to your website then buy some google ads and stop spamming us please.

By: hijklmno

hijklmno — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:24:33 +0000

Looks like the wikipedia article has been amended.

By: Stephy

Stephy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:07:56 +0000

@Jen: I can understand inspiration, but when some of the shots look exactly the same (or at least that close), something sounds fishy.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:33:24 +0000

Wow… in the last one, even the person in the suit looks nearly identical!

By: rek

rek — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:12:36 +0000

Such Great Heights has nothing to do with THX 1138, but even if it did how the hell does TBWA get ‘inspired’ in exactly the right way to *reproduce the Postal Service video* in their commercials for the Mac Intel chipset?

Have you even *seen* THX 1138?

By: fluffy

fluffy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:56:57 +0000

Pablo Picasso? You mean the guy who’s attributed to the quote, “Good artists imitate, great artists steal,”?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:01:01 +0000

Well, it’s not really Apple. This is the fault of Apple’s advertising agency, TBWA \ Chiat \ Day. If I hired an artist to make a painting for my wall, and you came over to my house and saw that it was your idea, or concept that was ripped off from you; you would probably ask, “who did this?” My point is that TBWA Chiat Day should be mentioned in this article not particularly Apple… In hiring a company the size of TBWA, I’m sure they are paying them to conceptualize an idea, and frankly they should do a better job for that kind of budget.